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Moodle for Professional Development to Agricultural Extension Professionals in Africa: Workshop

Moodle for Professional Development to Agricultural Extension Professionals in Africa: Workshop Shimelis Assefa, Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Abebe Rorissa. Who we are?. Shimelis Assefa University of Denver sassefa @du.edu. Daniel Gelaw Alemneh University of North Texas Daniel.Alemneh @unt.edu.

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Moodle for Professional Development to Agricultural Extension Professionals in Africa: Workshop

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  1. Moodle for Professional Development to Agricultural Extension Professionals in Africa: Workshop Shimelis Assefa, Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Abebe Rorissa

  2. Who we are? Shimelis Assefa University of Denver sassefa@du.edu Daniel Gelaw Alemneh University of North Texas Daniel.Alemneh@unt.edu Abebe Rorissa University at Albany, State University of New York arorissa@albany.edu

  3. Agenda • Design and evaluation of course and curriculum for professional development • Digital Libraries for Professional Development • Learning Management System

  4. Education and Knowledge Diffusion • Education is one of the key factors to effective knowledge diffusion • In agriculture, extension agents/workers play a key role in the diffusion of agricultural knowledge • Continuous professional development and training of extension agents/workers enables them to be effective in the diffusion of that knowledge

  5. Education/Training of Extension Agents • Professional development and training of extension agents/workers require a well planned curriculum and a set of courses • Courses are delivered through face to face and online modes as well as a mix of both • Each has its own advantages and challenges • Online: practical, convenient, flexible, anytime, anywhere, more time to digest course content – impersonal, time-consuming, lack of support

  6. Curriculum - Defined • A curriculum: • is a document or plan that exists in a school or instructional setting • defines the work of instructors or trainers or teachers • identifies the content to be delivered to students using a set of instructional methods, and • its main purpose is to achieve student learning goals and objectives

  7. The Curriculum Development Process

  8. Curriculum Evaluation

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  10. Student Learning Objectives • State the skills, knowledge, values, attitudes, and dispositions that students will be equipped with • Can fall within one or more levels in Blooms Taxonomy • Student Learning Objectives Action Verb List

  11. Student Learning Objectives • At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to: • distinguish the various modules and features of Moodle • use the various features of Moodle • design or create a course in Moodle • appraise the appropriateness of Moodle to their situations/environments/needs

  12. Digital Libraries for Professional Development • We live in a time of abundance • There is so much online, digital research based knowledge stored in repositories allover the world • We can harness these resources for professional development to support Agricultural Extension Agents in Africa.

  13. Digital Libraries … • Examples • AGORA • CGIAR Library

  14. Digital Libraries … • AGRICOLA – USDA National Agricultural Library. • Or, a more comprehensive list of resources from FAO Library – next slide.

  15. Learning Management System • LMS is the framework that handles all aspects of the learning process. • An LMS is the infrastructure that delivers and manages instructional content, identifies and assesses individual and organizational learning or training goals, tracks the progress towards meeting those goals, and collects and presents data for supervising the learning process of an organization as a whole. Watson, W.R., & Watson, S.L. (2007). An argument for clarity: What are Learning management systems, what are they not, and what should they become? TechTrends, 51(2) 28 – 34.

  16. LMS … https://moodle.org/ https://www.coursesites.com http://www.sakaiproject.org/ http://www.openclass.com

  17. Moodle • Download, Install, Configure Moodle • Create a new course • Working with images, videos • Using repositories • Creating Forums, Wiki

  18. Download, Install, Configure Moodle • Before you install Moodle, you need – the AMP stack • Web server – Apache • Database – MySQL • Scripting language – PHP • To get the stack, there are multiple options

  19. Download … • But … • Complete install packages V. Standard Install packages • Complete install packages – has Moodle plus AMP stack • Standard Install packages – has only Moodle.

  20. Download… • So, better go with the Complete install packages if using • Standalone computer, or • On a development/test environment, NOT on a production server • Ready to install

  21. Let’s do hands-on • Configuring Moodle • Create a new course • Working with images, videos • Using repositories • Creating Forums, Wiki

  22. Hands-on … • Our Demo Moodle site

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